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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Understanding Project Management | |
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| Defining Project Success | |
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| The Project Manager-Line Manager Interface | |
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| Defining the Project Manager's Role | |
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| Defining the Functional Manager's Role | |
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| Defining the Functional Employee's Role | |
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| Defining the Executive's Role | |
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| Working with Executives | |
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| The Project Manager as the Planning Agent | |
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| Project Champions | |
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| The Downside of Project Management | |
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| Project-Driven versus Non-Project-Driven Organizations | |
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| Marketing in the Project-Driven Organization | |
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| Classification of Projects | |
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| Location of the Project Manager | |
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| Differing Views of Project Management | |
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| Concurrent Engineering: A Project Management Approach | |
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| Studying Tips for the PMIr Project Management Certification Exam.Problems.Case Study.Williams Machine Tool Company | |
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| Project Management Growth: Concepts And Definitions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| General Systems Management | |
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| Project Management: 1945-1960 | |
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| Project Management: 1960-1985 | |
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| Project Management: 1985-2009 | |
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| Resistance to Change | |
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| Systems, Programs, and Projects: A Definition | |
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| Product versus Project Management: A Definition | |
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| Maturity and Excellence: A Definition | |
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| Informal Project Management: A Definition | |
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| The Many Faces of Success | |
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| The Many Faces of Failure | |
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| The Stage-Gate Process | |
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| Project Life Cycles | |
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| Gate Review Meetings (Project Closure) | |
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| Project Management Methodologies: A Definition | |
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| Organizational Change Management and Corporate Cultures | |
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| Project Management Intellectual Property | |
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| Systems Thinking | |
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| Studying Tips for the PMIr Project Management Certification Exam.Problems | |
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| Organizational Structures | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Organizational Work Flow | |
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| Traditional (Classical) Organization | |
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| Developing Work Integration Positions | |
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| Line-Staff Organization (Project Coordinator) | |
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| Pure Product (Projectized) Organization | |
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| Matrix Organizational Form | |
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| Modification of Matrix Structures | |
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| The Strong, Weak, Balanced Matrix | |
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| Center for Project Management Expertise | |
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| Matrix Layering | |
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| Selecting the Organizational Form | |
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| Structuring the Small Company | |
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| Strategic Business Unit (SBU) Project Management | |
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| Transitional Management | |
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| Studying Tips for the PMIr Project Management Certification Exam.Problems.Case Study.Jones and Shephard Accountants, Inc | |
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| Organizing And Staffing The Project Office And Team | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Staffing Environment | |
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| Selecting the Project Manager: An Executive Decision | |
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| Skill Requirements for Project and Program Managers | |
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| Special Cases in Project Manager Selection | |
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| Selecting the Wrong Project Manager | |
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| Next Generation Project Managers | |
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| Duties and Job Descriptions | |
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| The Organizational Staffing Process | |
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| The Project Office | |
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| The Functional Team | |
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| The Project Organizational Chart | |
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| Special Problems | |
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| Selecting t | |